[tor-talk] Tor for upcoming FirefoxOS?

[Nick Mathewson]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Nathan Freitas <nathan at freitas.net> wrote:
> On 07/02/2013 02:02 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote:
>> I am wondering if a Client-Only, lightweight Tor Library in Javascript
>> would be feasible, maybe considering SilverTunnel porting
>> https://silvertunnel.org ?
>
> The problem in the past with silvertunnel, coffee onion, java-tor, etc,
> has been keeping it up to date with the high frequency of changes
> occurring in tor master. This is why we chose to cross-compile for Orbot.
>
> However, I think *someone* should start working on a lightweight Tor
> javascript client now, just to see whether or not it is possible,
> because I think it could have great impact.

I haven't looked at it much and can't comment on its status or QOI,
but I believe Aymeric has started a project that could be like you
describe: https://github.com/Ayms/node-Tor


yrs,
-- 
Nick